Ambitransitive Alternation
C

Description

The Mandarin Ambitransitive Alternation primarily involves the use of a type of verbs which can function as both transitive and intransitive. When used as a transitive verb, an SVO structure makes sense in that S causes O to V. When used as an intransitive verb, the reversed OV structure makes sense. However, idiomatic use of the alternation does not necessarily meet the condition. Since the Ambitransitive Alternation has to be split into two alternations: Causal-Noncausal (for transitive verbs) and Noncausal-Causal (for intransitive verbs), we always adopt the perspective of the counterpart verb form given in the list for this dataset.